Halloween horror selection
'Tis the season of ghosts and witches ! A selections of frightful reads to read in bed before dark
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''An American masterpiece'' AS Byatt Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home - the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child, the daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ''Beloved''.
A tale of brutality, horror and, above all, love at any cost, Beloved is Toni Morrison''s enduring masterpiece and best-known work.
''Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours..."Beloved," is a heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and should be read by all'' Margaret Atwood, New York Times **One of the BBC''s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World** -
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COMPLETE FICTION OF H.P. LOVECRAFT (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
LOVECRAFT H P
- QUARTO PUBLISHING
- 1 April 2019
- 9780785834205
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The bloodthirsty Count Dracula has trapped you inside his castle! CAN YOU ESCAPE?
Readers will be transported into the pages of 14 classic horror stories in their quest to escape from Count Dracula's castle. Aid Victor Frankenstein create his modern Prometheus, help Dr Jekyll escape the clutches of Mr Hyde, and lay the vicious ghost of the headless horseman to rest forever. Trace your way through labyrinthine mazes and solve intricate puzzles, learning about some of the most terrifying tales in literature as you go.
Illustrated in astonishing detail by Adam Allori, this stylish and immersive puzzle book will appeal to readers of all ages. -
TALES ACCURSED: A FOLK HORROR ANTHOLOGY (03/10/24)
WELLS, RICHARD
- UNBOUND
- 19 September 2024
- 9781789651737
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PAN'S LABYRINTH : THE LABYRINTH OF THE FAUN (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
DEL TORO GUILLERMO, FUNKE CORNELIA
- BLOOMSBURY
- 4 October 2024
- 9781526609588
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This enthralling novel, inspired by the 2006 film, illustrates that fantasy is the sharpest tool to explore the terrors and miracles of the human heart You shouldn't come in here. You could get lost. It has happened before. I'll tell you the story one day, if you want to hear it.
In fairy tales, there are men and there are wolves, there are beasts and dead parents, there are girls and forests.
Ofelia knows all this, like any young woman with a head full of stories. And she sees right away what the Capitan is, in his immaculate uniform, boots and gloves, smiling: a wolf.
But nothing can prepare her for the fevered reality of the Capitan's eerie house, in the midst of a dense forest which conceals many things: half-remembered stories of lost babies; renegade resistance fighters hiding from the army; a labyrinth; beasts and fairies.
There is no one to keep Ofelia safe as the labyrinth beckons her into her own story, where the monstrous and the human are inextricable, where myths pulse with living blood ...
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IN THESE HALLOWED HALLS: A DARK ACADEMIA ANTHOLOGY
RIO / BLAKE/ ELLISON
- TITAN
- 7 October 2024
- 9781803365640
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